The National Book Awards longlist for fiction: 8 women and 2 men

Jesmyn Ward, who won the National Book Award in 2011 for her novel "Salvage the Bones," is one of 10 longlisted authors this year for her latest, "Sing, Unburied, Sing." (Ulf Andersen / Getty Images)

The 10 finalists for the National Book Award in fiction have been announced: Eight of the 10 are female authors. It's the first time since the National Book Foundation started using longlists in 2013 that women have appeared in such a majority.

Among the longlisted fiction authors are previous National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward, Pulitzer Prize-winner Jennifer Egan and writer Charmaine Craig, who lives in Los Angeles.

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The complete list is below.

"Dark at the Crossing" by Elliot Ackerman Knopf / Penguin Random House

"The King Is Always Above the People: Stories" by Daniel Alarcón Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House